We have decided to name our daughter Kielii Elizabeth. Haven't really told many family members bc I don't want their negative thoughts on her name.
How is this goihng to be pronounced? Like Kelly? Or Kylie? Something else entirely? I honestly can't make sense of it and am curious.
If you're committed to it, at least consider a more common spelling...otherwise your daughter is going to be correcting the pronounciation and spelling of her name for the rest of her life.
We have decided to name our daughter Kielii Elizabeth. Haven't really told many family members bc I don't want their negative thoughts on her name.
How is this goihng to be pronounced? Like Kelly? Or Kylie? Something else entirely? I honestly can't make sense of it and am curious.
If you're committed to it, at least consider a more common spelling...otherwise your daughter is going to be correcting the pronounciation and spelling of her name for the rest of her life.
Yes, I wanted to ask the same thing... I really can't figure this one out...
I read it as keelee. Does that sound right? If so I love it. And I like the spelling too.
I like the name too, I can't get on board with the spelling personally, just bc as others have said, she will be answering pronunciation and spelling questions the rest of her life. Maybe that's ok with the poster and to each her own, I just would not do it personally.
We have decided to name our daughter Kielii Elizabeth. Haven't really told many family members bc I don't want their negative thoughts on her name.
How is this goihng to be pronounced? Like Kelly? Or Kylie? Something else entirely? I honestly can't make sense of it and am curious.
If you're committed to it, at least consider a more common spelling...otherwise your daughter is going to be correcting the pronounciation and spelling of her name for the rest of her life.
Yes, I wanted to ask the same thing... I really can't figure this one out...
im reading it as Kay-lee but i never have been good with that kinda thing.
Isaac Matthew It feels so good to "tell" someone lol! We don't share names before the baby is born and we had a REALLY hard time settling on this one. He is our 4th and we couldn't come up with anything that we agreed on.
So now we will have Thomas Anthony, Max Robert, Norah Pearl and Isaac Matthew. I think they sound good together but I'm so indecisive so I hope it sticks!
My wife wants to hyphenate his last name. I'm not a fan. thoughts?
It depends. Smith-Jones, not so bad. Mine and DH's last names, hyphenated, a total disaster. Best thing I could advise - write it out, many, many, many times. And then do it some more. Same for saying it out loud. Get a feel for how your kid is going to have to deal with always writing that out into forms, etc, always having that called in roll taking at school. Are you annoyed with it? Your kid probably will be, too. Also, look at the initials. Felicia Ann Roberts-Thompson sounds fine, until you notice its FART.
Isaac Matthew It feels so good to "tell" someone lol! We don't share names before the baby is born and we had a REALLY hard time settling on this one. He is our 4th and we couldn't come up with anything that we agreed on.
So now we will have Thomas Anthony, Max Robert, Norah Pearl and Isaac Matthew. I think they sound good together but I'm so indecisive so I hope it sticks!
I think our daughters middle name will be Pearl too, as a nod to June
My wife wants to hyphenate his last name. I'm not a fan. thoughts?
It depends. Smith-Jones, not so bad. Mine and DH's last names, hyphenated, a total disaster. Best thing I could advise - write it out, many, many, many times. And then do it some more. Same for saying it out loud. Get a feel for how your kid is going to have to deal with always writing that out into forms, etc, always having that called in roll taking at school. Are you annoyed with it? Your kid probably will be, too. Also, look at the initials. Felicia Ann Roberts-Thompson sounds fine, until you notice its FART.
Good luck!
As a woman who loved my maiden name and am having a hard time adjusting to my (hyphenated) married name even four years later... I would say listen to her reasons, and drop the societal expectations. I think it just totally sucks that women get the short end of the stick just because they are women.
In my case, our LO will have a first and/or middle name that honors my family, since we have agreed to use DH's last name. For us, it is a fair way to connect our kid to both families.
My wife wants to hyphenate his last name. I'm not a fan. thoughts?
It depends. Smith-Jones, not so bad. Mine and DH's last names, hyphenated, a total disaster. Best thing I could advise - write it out, many, many, many times. And then do it some more. Same for saying it out loud. Get a feel for how your kid is going to have to deal with always writing that out into forms, etc, always having that called in roll taking at school. Are you annoyed with it? Your kid probably will be, too. Also, look at the initials. Felicia Ann Roberts-Thompson sounds fine, until you notice its FART.
Good luck!
As a woman who loved my maiden name and am having a hard time adjusting to my (hyphenated) married name even four years later... I would say listen to her reasons, and drop the societal expectations. I think it just totally sucks that women get the short end of the stick just because they are women.
In my case, our LO will have a first and/or middle name that honors my family, since we have agreed to use DH's last name. For us, it is a fair way to connect our kid to both families.
And amen to what the ever-wise Melly said.
I didn't take my husbands last name, either. Our solution to the last name quandary was my hubs idea, and it seemed a fair shake, so its probably what we are going with. Since we are Team Green - a girl gets my last name, a boy gets his. Some ladies on the names board thought this was 'sexist' but I kinda like the way it leaves the whole last name decision up to the gods. We already know about the drama that one parent is going to have to go thru because of not sharing the same name, but other than that there's no reason a kid can't have my last name. If we gave the kid hubby's last name for sure, then I'm the one dealing with all the having the weird name bs. At least this way, its 50/50 who gets to deal with having the off name.
Unless anyone here can think of a valid reason to not do it this way?
My wife wants to hyphenate his last name. I'm not a fan. thoughts?
It depends. Smith-Jones, not so bad. Mine and DH's last names, hyphenated, a total disaster. Best thing I could advise - write it out, many, many, many times. And then do it some more. Same for saying it out loud. Get a feel for how your kid is going to have to deal with always writing that out into forms, etc, always having that called in roll taking at school. Are you annoyed with it? Your kid probably will be, too. Also, look at the initials. Felicia Ann Roberts-Thompson sounds fine, until you notice its FART.
Good luck!
As a woman who loved my maiden name and am having a hard time adjusting to my (hyphenated) married name even four years later... I would say listen to her reasons, and drop the societal expectations. I think it just totally sucks that women get the short end of the stick just because they are women.
In my case, our LO will have a first and/or middle name that honors my family, since we have agreed to use DH's last name. For us, it is a fair way to connect our kid to both families.
And amen to what the ever-wise Melly said.
I didn't take my husbands last name, either. Our solution to the last name quandary was my hubs idea, and it seemed a fair shake, so its probably what we are going with. Since we are Team Green - a girl gets my last name, a boy gets his. Some ladies on the names board thought this was 'sexist' but I kinda like the way it leaves the whole last name decision up to the gods. We already know about the drama that one parent is going to have to go thru because of not sharing the same name, but other than that there's no reason a kid can't have my last name. If we gave the kid hubby's last name for sure, then I'm the one dealing with all the having the weird name bs. At least this way, its 50/50 who gets to deal with having the off name.
Unless anyone here can think of a valid reason to not do it this way?
I think that's totally reasonable. I didn't take his name either, and am glad about it, but I am (planning on) having more kids and just feel like it's easier for siblings to have the same name so we're going with his. I don't know why, just default I guess. We're giving our son a middle name that relates to my last name and that'll have to be enough. It sucks to have to choose! Hyphenated it would be 15 characters long and 6 syllables, which is just too much. I'm not really sad about our compromise, I just wish it wasn't inherently male-centered.
Maybe I am a little sad - I'm totally rethinking it all now!
@mellymar - oh, just to keep it "not sexist," you guys could switch it so your name goes to a boy and his to a girl! Same odds, but mixing it up a bit!
@Frogger5 yeah there was no way of a hyphenation - DH's last name *by itself* is 17 letters, 4 syllables. I thought about switching it, but since it was DH's idea and I had honestly not thought of a way around the problem, I figured he wanted the 'pass my name to my son' thing. He might not even care, honestly, I haven't asked, but it was his idea and a good one, so whatever...
I took DH's last name, but in my mind, I was choosing between my dad's last name and my husband's last name - and since I'm not close to my dad, it felt like the right move. Both our last names are equally misspelled and mispronounced so no factors there. And hyphenated would have been s disaster.
Alexander Cole, I had a dream long before I was with DH that I had a son by that name and when I woke up I realized just how in love I was with it, Luckily DH agreed when we found out I was pregnant that if a boy we would use that name as long as second son had clarke as a middle name (he's a HUGE superman fan) I readily agreed
Re: names?
How is this goihng to be pronounced? Like Kelly? Or Kylie? Something else entirely? I honestly can't make sense of it and am curious.
If you're committed to it, at least consider a more common spelling...otherwise your daughter is going to be correcting the pronounciation and spelling of her name for the rest of her life.
How is this goihng to be pronounced? Like Kelly? Or Kylie? Something else entirely? I honestly can't make sense of it and am curious.
If you're committed to it, at least consider a more common spelling...otherwise your daughter is going to be correcting the pronounciation and spelling of her name for the rest of her life.
Yes, I wanted to ask the same thing... I really can't figure this one out...im reading it as Kay-lee
but i never have been good with that kinda thing.
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It feels so good to "tell" someone lol! We don't share names before the baby is born and we had a REALLY hard time settling on this one. He is our 4th and we couldn't come up with anything that we agreed on.
So now we will have Thomas Anthony, Max Robert, Norah Pearl and Isaac Matthew. I think they sound good together but I'm so indecisive so I hope it sticks!
Edit forgot to tag you @Emilywooddesign !
Good luck!
Big sister is Amoré Ané.... I like the double A's
As a woman who loved my maiden name and am having a hard time adjusting to my (hyphenated) married name even four years later... I would say listen to her reasons, and drop the societal expectations. I think it just totally sucks that women get the short end of the stick just because they are women.
In my case, our LO will have a first and/or middle name that honors my family, since we have agreed to use DH's last name. For us, it is a fair way to connect our kid to both families.
And amen to what the ever-wise Melly said.
Unless anyone here can think of a valid reason to not do it this way?
Maybe I am a little sad - I'm totally rethinking it all now!